Text Box: GA Events Coordinator Rosemary Matson, Carmel Valley, CA Rev. Shirley Ranck, Williamsburg, VA   GA Booth Coordinator Helen Popenoe, Bethesda, MD   Membership List Marnie Singer, Sunnyvale, CA                                                                                                                                                                                           District Representatives Central Midwest District—open Florida—Sarah K. Snyder, Seminole, FL                  Carol S. Andros, Clearwater, FL Heartland—Misty Sheehan, Empire, MI Pacific Central—Barbara Schonborn, Mountain View, CA Joseph Priestley District—Nuala Carpenter, St. Davids, PA   Text Box: speaker, Anna Lappé, fresh from the frontlines of conscious action gave us hope for our world and a way to move with courage into the chaos.  Workshop presenters’ thoughtful presentations carried us from our interior work on one hand to the exterior world of action on the other. For more information on Women and Religion in the Central Midwest District, visit our website: www.womenandreligion.org. -- Pat Goller, Central Illinois WS2005 Planning Committee  

Text Box: Shirley reports on Bill’s response:   “A few weeks later I received a handwritten letter from President Bill Sinkford, acknowledging my concerns although not agreeing with them, and expressing the wish for further dialogue.  I felt that I had at least been respectfully heard.  And I notice that the article about GA in the Fall issue of UU World describes the Sunday worship without any mention of the ‘born again’ theme.” [Note from Helen Pop – Please, see the Summer WOMUUNWEB for a complete text of Shirley’s letter.]   Text Box: The 2005 GA Sunday Service represented UUs to the Ft. Worth public at large. Rev. Shirley Ranck sent a letter to the organizers of the event and received a respectful response from Rev. Bill Sinkford.   Shirley built the letter on this basic tenet: “I think the loss of female identity is still oppressive in this society." Text Box: Co-Convener Rev. Dorothy Emerson, Medford, MA   Co-Convener Misty Sheehan, Empire, MI   Grass Roots Development Coordinator Rev. Doddie Stone, Sullivan, IN   Treasurer Geri Kennedy, Redwood City, CA   Secretary Gretchen Ohmann, St. Joseph, MI   Text Box: Thanks to a very hard working Central Illinois Committee (Peoria, Springfield, Decatur), a village arose at our conference this year. WomanSpirit community vendors, social service agencies who serve women and families, spontaneous entertainers and wandering minstrels, drummers and dancers, colorful prayer flags and posters from the continents and song and laughter transformed a rather ordinary hotel conference center into our dream of a peaceful, conscious community.  An inspiring keynote

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